rũũga
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records kurugaruga as an equivalent of English jump in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili kuruka as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
rũũga (infinitive kũrũũga)
- to jump
Related terms[edit]
(Nouns)
- ndũũgo class 9
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 34–35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “rũũga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.